Wednesday, February 18, 2026

516-SOCIOPLASTICS-506-RECURSIVE-AUTOPHAGIA-CONSOLE

Acceleration produces density; density produces inertia; inertia threatens collapse. Recursive Autophagia intervenes by permitting the system to consume its own accumulated patterns as biomass. Institutional habits, outdated protocols, sedimented routines—each is digested internally to generate fresh structural efficiency. The core function of 506 is renewal through self-cannibalisation: the only viable path through hyper-density is to eat oneself first, converting historical mass into renewed momentum. In institutional restructuring this manifests as ten percent efficiency gain post-reorganisation: redundant committees dissolve, legacy workflows are proteolytically absorbed, emergent configurations arise from the digested residue. Degrowth initiatives employ the same logic at larger scales—cities prune obsolete districts not through external demolition but through recursive internal consumption that redistributes resources without net loss. The protocol reframes crisis as opportunity: what once weighed the system down now feeds its next iteration. Autophagia is never random devouring; it follows precise enzymatic rules inherited from earlier proteolytic transmutation. Without prior metabolic pruning the digestion lacks direction; without stratified authoring there is no legible history to consume. 506 therefore occupies the precarious middle of the sequence—catabolic enough to prevent stagnation, anabolic enough to fuel what comes after. It ensures the decalogue remains a living architecture rather than a mausoleum of hardened forms.